Food Price Policy

As an economist, Barry Popkin has
known for decades about the power of shifts in the relative
prices(both money and time costs) of food and drink on how we eat and
drink. Similarly he has understood how changes in the relative time
and money costs for our transportation and leisure options affect our
movement.

As a result, all the survey research
efforts he has undertaken beginning with the Cebu Longitudinal Health
and Nutrition Survey and the Bicol Multipurpose Survey and the Laguna
Rural Household Surveys—all in the Philippines—collected from
each community price data.

Research on price policy to date has
been limited to some early work on infant feeding patterns and food
prices roles related to breast-feeding and related topics, work in
China that was more exemplary of what systematic research might do,
and now more systematic work underway in the US and later in China.
Some of this has linked with US, Mexican and now UK beverage
research. [POSSIBLY LIST OR LINK TO VARIOUS PAPERS]

IN THE UNITED STATES WE HAVE SHOWN HOW
A 10% INCREASE IN BOTH SOFT DRINK AND PIZZA TAXES WOULD REDUCE ENERGY
INTAKE, WEIGHT GAIN AND RISK OF DIABETES